{"id":15684,"date":"2018-03-21T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:46:01","slug":"the-bi-weekly-gamer-handing-out-justice-in-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/03\/21\/the-bi-weekly-gamer-handing-out-justice-in-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em>: Handing out justice in esports"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest problems with esports is dealing with toxic people who insist on doing things their own way.<\/p>\n

While countless rules are put in place by the organizers of game leagues, sometimes you get someone that just doesn\u2019t follow them. Obviously, those that don\u2019t follow the code of conduct get penalties, which usually come in the form of fines, suspensions, or\u2014in severe cases\u2014expulsion from the league.<\/p>\n

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The Bi-weekly Gamer<\/em> is a column about competitive gaming that appears in every issue of Nexus<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There have been many cases of conduct violations in different games over the years. Usually, the game developers are the ones to investigate the breaches and are also the ones to pass judgment on the matter. This doesn\u2019t always lead to favourable results, though. Take League of Legends<\/i> and its developer, Riot Games, who have been criticized by their community, team organizations, and their own employees for poor decision-making and a \u201cjudge, jury, executioner\u201d mindset. While this has led to a low rate of breaches in conduct, it\u2019s also left many wondering if they\u2019re in danger of getting in trouble for doing even the smallest of things.<\/p>\n

With the launch of the Overwatch League at the start of the year, it was only a matter of time before they too would be subject to having to deal with unruly players. The first breach came in January, when one of the players on the Dallas Fuel, F\u00e9lix \u201cxQc\u201d Lengyel, used hateful, homophobic slurs toward a player on another team while live streaming after their match. Lengyel was fined $1,000 and given disciplinary action.<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to the start of March: a wave of players were caught in violation of the league\u2019s rules. One of them was Lengyel. This time, the punishment came in the form of a $4,000 fine, suspension for four games, and disciplinary action. The Dallas Fuel released a press release two days later announcing that they were letting Lengyel go due to his actions.<\/p>\n

While there was backlash to all of the rulings, I believe that no matter what the game is, justice will be\u2014and needs to be\u2014served if warranted. Here\u2019s hoping the number of violations in Overwatch<\/i> drops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest problems with esports is dealing with toxic people who insist on doing things their own way. While countless rules are put in place by the organizers of game leagues, sometimes you get someone that just doesn\u2019t follow them. Obviously, those that don\u2019t follow the code of conduct get penalties, which usually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-march-21-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15685,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions\/15685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}